Nicolas is an artist and a filmmaker who asked nothing more but to be able to express himself freely. A freedom which caused many problems... The "ideologists" wanted to silence him during his debuts in Georgia. They believed that his work was not in line with the current rules. Nicolas faced their tenacity and ha...

Nicolas is an artist and a filmmaker who asked nothing more but to be able to express himself freely. A freedom which caused many problems... The "ideologists" wanted to silence him during his debuts in Georgia. They believed that his work was not in line with the current rules. Nicolas faced their tenacity and had to leave his home country for France, land of freedom and democracy. But this state of grace didn't last long...

Nicolas est un artis...

Nicolas is an artist and a filmmaker who asked nothing more but to be able to express himself freely. A freedom which caused many problems... The "ideologists" wanted to silence him during his debuts in Georgia. They believed that his work was not in line with the current rules. Nicolas faced their tenacity and had to leave his home country for France, land of freedom and democracy. But this state of grace didn't last long...

A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son's school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband's lack of interest in the family's survival-even as the bank repossesses their furnit...

A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son's school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband's lack of interest in the family's survival-even as the bank repossesses their furniture. But when a group of policemen blackmails Checkie into entrapping the son of his wealthy friend, husband and wife are unified by th...A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son's school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband's lack of interest in the family's survival-even as the bank repossesses their furniture. But when a group of policemen blackmails Checkie into entrapping the son of his wealthy friend, husband and wife are unified by the uncertainty of their deepening moral dilemma, and a series of worsening foul-ups, in Levan Koguashvili's lightly humorous yet realistic drama about the fate of a generation left behind in Georgia's post-Soviet era. Adult
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During the 1920s, Soviet documentary and fiction films were financed by the State, and their fledgling directors, some barely out of their teens, converted their lives from theater, engineering, painting and journalism to the practice and theory of a revolutionary cinema devoted to showing the achievements and asp...

During the 1920s, Soviet documentary and fiction films were financed by the State, and their fledgling directors, some barely out of their teens, converted their lives from theater, engineering, painting and journalism to the practice and theory of a revolutionary cinema devoted to showing the achievements and aspirations of the new Socialist society. Their problem was to captivate an enormous, culturally diverse, multi-lingual, semi-literate pop...During the 1920s, Soviet documentary and fiction films were financed by the State, and their fledgling directors, some barely out of their teens, converted their lives from theater, engineering, painting and journalism to the practice and theory of a revolutionary cinema devoted to showing the achievements and aspirations of the new Socialist society. Their problem was to captivate an enormous, culturally diverse, multi-lingual, semi-literate population in ways that would be emotionally compelling, yet ideologically clear. The proven ability of movies to achieve this difficult goal inspired Lenin's famous dictum, 'For us, cinema is the most important art,' and their stunning innovations recharged world cinema. Editing, or montage, is the common organizational basis of these films and each of the filmmakers believed the arrangement of shots to be the foundation of film art. Mikhail Kalatozov's documentary Salt for Svanetia (1930) explores the Caucasus region of Svanetia, a remote, mountainous area where the Ushkul tribe still lives in a stone-age culture.
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